Background Music
Tom Service asks what is background music and how it functions in our lives. Including Satie's 'furniture music', Stimulus Progression, Brian Eno and Mozart serenades.
Tom tunes into the background, exploring what background music really is; telling the surprising story of the Muzak corporation, and discovering that there's a range of background functions that music can have: from the 'furniture music' of Erik Satie to the Stimulus Progression albums used in Lyndon B Johnson's White House. Daniel Barenboim, Julian Lloyd-Webber and Brian Eno help explain the power of and problems with background music.
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A Brief History of Muzak
Duration: 04:37
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Brian Eno
Always Returning
- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks.
- E.G. Records.
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Erik Satie
Chez Un bistrot
Performer: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux. Performer: Yutaka Sado.- ERATO.
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Clean Bandit
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
- New Eyes.
- Atlantic Records.
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Beastie Boys
Fight For Your Right
- Licensed To Ill.
- Def Jam Recordings.
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Ravi Shankar
Dhun In Devgiri Bilawal
- The Rough Guide To Ravi Shankar.
- World Music Network.
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Calm Music Zone
Ambient Sounds
- Music To Calm Down: Calming Music With Nature Sounds For Emotional Distress, Sle.
- Imagination Unlimited.
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DJ Caspar
Cha Cha Slide
- Oops Upside Your Head.
- All Around The World 鈥�.
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Mantovani
Charmaine
- Charmaine.
- Decca 鈥�.
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Erik Satie
Un Salon
Performer: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux. Performer: Yutaka Sado.- ERATO.
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David Lewis Luong
Memoir of summer
- Best of Elevator Music & Mall Music.
- www.reverbnation.com/lewisluong.
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Brian Eno
Music for Airports
Performer: Brian Eno. -
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Felix Bernard
Winter Wonderland
Performer: Frank Sinatra.- A Jolly Christmas Frank Sinatra.
- Capitol Records.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 7 (Op.92) in A major, 4th movement; Allegro con brio
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Carlos Kleiber.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade (K.361) in B flat major ..., 2nd movement; Menuetto
Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
- 2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in E flat major, K 375 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
- 8.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade (K.525) in G major "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", 1st movement; Allegro
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.- Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica: After Mozart.
- Nonesuch.
- 6.
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Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
- Old Spice Ad.
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John Coltrane
Oleo
- The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961.
- Sony Music.
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Judith Weir
Arise! Arise!
Performer: William Howard. Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.- NMC.
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Muzak
Paradise Program
- Stimulus Progression 6.
- MUZAK.
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